1960s in sociology

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The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1960s.

1960

  • Raymond Aron's Main Currents in Sociological Thought is published.
  • Simone de Beauvoir's The Prime of Life is published.
  • Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology is published.
  • Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty is published.
  • R.D. Laing's The Divided Self is published.
  • C. Wright Mills's Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba and Images of man is published.
  • Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason is published.
  • Joan Woodward's The Saleswoman is published.
  • Michael Young's and Peter Willmott's Family and class in a London suburb is published.
  • Howard S. Becker serves as president of the ASA.

Deaths

1961

1962

Deaths

1963

1964

1965

Births

  • Nildo Viana

Deaths

1966

Deaths

1967

1968

  • Raymond Aron's The Elusive Revolution is published.
  • Jürgen Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interests is published.
  • Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's Women's Two Roles: Home and Work, 2nd edition is published.
  • Geoffry Duncan Mitchell's A Hundred Years of Sociology is published.
  • Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama: An inquiry into the Poverty of Nations is published.
  • Frank Parkin's Middle class radicalism : the social bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is published.
  • Nicos Poulantzas' Political Power and Social Classes is published.
  • Cyril Smith's Adolescence : an introduction to the problems of order and the opportunities for continuity presented by adolescence in Britain is published.
  • The destruction of the 'Prague Spring' and the failure of the May '68 revolutions results in the beginning of the end of traditional Marxism as a sociological paradigm.

1969